Matousek Quotes & Sayings

Grace, you can accept my secrets, my horrors and my friendship but not a simple dress? Robert asked, hearing my thoughts. - Falling From Grace — S.L. Naeole

When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the story is right, and the people we love are waiting to listen, we tell each other how to live. — Mark Matousek

The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes. — Mark Matousek

Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace. — Mark Matousek

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess ... — Eliot Paulina Sumner

As one widow put it to me, Strength doesn't mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again. — Mark Matousek

You go on with your life, because life goes on," says Isabel. "You see this in anyone who has survived a traumatic situation. My own daughter died, for example." Her only daughter, Paula Frias, died of porphyria in 1992 at the age of twenty-seven. "At first you think you can't live with this," says the author, who just turned sixty-five. "It's just too much. Then life begins to take over. One morning you wake up and you want to eat chocolate. Or walk in the woods. Or open a bottle of wine. You get back up on your feet." "When you can, right?" "You have no choice!" Isabel insists. "You cannot let the bullies keep you on the floor! I have been on my knees a thousand times, and I always get up. — Mark Matousek

Joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms — Mark Matousek

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice! — Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied. — James Allen

Survival requires a dose of madness - what cynics call "hoping against hope" - just like art does; you conjure your future from white space, locate the hidden person, yourself, against this unfamiliar background, peering through grief and loss at something greater. "Survivors are more urgently rooted in life than most of us," observed one Holocaust expert. "Their will to survive is one with the thrust of life itself, as stubborn as the upsurge of spring. A strange exultation fills [their] soul, a sense of being equal to the worst. — Mark Matousek

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Grown-up relationships are complicated. We got what we needed from each other. Passion. A safety net. Some kind of solace. It's lonely out there. But it ran its course. It was lovely while it lasted. But everything is finite. Life. Love. All this. Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness. - Rachel Mazrachi — Lauren Beukes

When people are in need, you must be present. When people suffer, you must let them know you're suffering with them." "The good side of bad acts?" I say. "I would not say that from horror comes goodness. That would be giving horror too much credit. But goodness prevails in spite of horror. — Mark Matousek

Don't plan with what is in your pocket; plan with what is in God's pocket — Reinhard Bonnke

There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort. — Mark Matousek

We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth. — Nancy Johnson

Now I have the bravery to do fine things. — Gabriela Sabatini

You don't actually get over things ... you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change. — Mark Matousek

Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make. — Martha Beck

The French have a term for this brazenness: je m'en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn. — Mark Matousek

If you take a hammer and hit something over and over again, it's gonna be destroyed. I don't wanna destroy my body cause I want my body to last me as long as it possible can. If you train hard and push it everyday, your body is going to wear out. So I give my body time to recover. — Ronnie Coleman